Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:19:28 -0700 From: "Brent Wiese" <brently@bjwcs.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: NAT and MTU Message-ID: <0c8b01c3465f$c8271db0$0a0114ac@home.bjwcs.com> In-Reply-To: <20030709010808.GA39506@dan.emsphone.com>
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> In the last episode (Jul 08), Brent Wiese said: > > I have a machine that is being double-NAT'd. > > > > Would it make sense to set the MTU lower to account for the NAT > > overhead? > > > > It makes sense to me as I know MTU, but I like to check in case my > > thinking isn't right. :) > > There is no overhead; all NAT does is rewrite IP addresses in > the header (and in some data packets of certain protocols > like FTP). It adds no extra data. > I never messed w/ NAT enough to have learned this. There's always something to learn! Thanks to all who responded. Brent
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